PSYC 230 Final UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Phineas Gage had damage to his _________, which explains his _______ - CORRECT
ANSWER - frontal lobe; impulsive behavior
A drug that blocks the sodium gates of a neuron's membrane will - CORRECT
ANSWER - block the action potential
Suppose you are interested in determining if the volume of the hippocampus is associated with
the amount of stress a person was experiencing. What would be the best choice? - CORRECT
ANSWER - MRI
What 2 areas does the longitudinal fissure separate? - CORRECT ANSWER - The left and
right hemisphere
Which lobe of the cerebral cortex is most important for sense of touch? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Parietal Lobe
Language is lateralized to the _____ hemisphere regions surrounding the ________ - CORRECT
ANSWER - Left; Sylvian Fissure
Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to specificity coding? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Unlikely to be correct because there are too many stimuli in the
world to have a separate neuron for each
What Pathway - CORRECT ANSWER - Temporal Lobe; ventral pathway; Patient DF had
problem with; object perception; conscious
Where Pathway - CORRECT ANSWER - Parietal Lobe; dorsal pathway; Patient RV had
problem with; how; action; subconscious
,Visual Agnosia - CORRECT ANSWER - Just go on vision, can't do it; only able to figure
out on where/how pathway
true - CORRECT ANSWER - true or false: imagery and perception rely on similar
mechanisms
mental scanning - CORRECT ANSWER - creating mental images and scanning them in
mind
With which sense do we use top-down processing to build our perceptions? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Vision, taste, and hearing
All of the following are examples of physical regularities in the environment EXCEPT -
CORRECT ANSWER - Hangers are likely to be found in a changing room in a
department store (this would be a semantic regularity)
Testing principles of Bayesian inference necessarily must involve - CORRECT
ANSWER - Mathematical prodedure; Taking previous knowledge of environment and
multiplying it by the likelihood based on the given circumstances
Visual Agnosia is associated with damage to which of the following - CORRECT
ANSWER - ventral pathway; what pathway; Patient DF orientation and object recognition
problems
You are studying perception of pitch and you hypothesize that a high pitched sound will be
processed more quickly than a low pitched sound, what method should you use? - CORRECT
ANSWER - ERP
Corey looks at a flock of seagulls flying in one direction, when suddenly, five of the seagulls
start flying in another direction. He now perceives two groups of birds, because of the Gestalt
principle of - CORRECT ANSWER - Common Fate
, Attentional Control Settings - CORRECT ANSWER - Trying to find a friend in a big
crowd, looking for friend in red, everything red starts standing out at you; turn on a specific
feature that we are captured by
If you showed a group of study participants a beach scene and then briefly flashed a number of
objects for them to identify. Which would be the most likely pattern of results. - CORRECT
ANSWER - They would be likely to identify a bucket and shovel and better than a coffee
mug
With Cherry's shadowing experiments, some participants notice their name or other important (to
them) information in the unattended channel. This suggested that attention follows more of a
_____ stage model than _____ originally suggested - CORRECT ANSWER - Later,
Broadbent
Greeble novices vs Greeble experts - CORRECT ANSWER - Greeble experts more
fusiform face area than Greeble novices
Which stage of the perceptual process is knowledge/top-down processing LEAST likely to
influence? - CORRECT ANSWER - Transduction
Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following
examples? - CORRECT ANSWER - When someone accurately identifies a word in a song
on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception
The incidence of change blindness ______ when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which
part of the scene has changed - CORRECT ANSWER - Decrease
A bottom-up process is involved in fixating on an area of a scene that - CORRECT
ANSWER - Has high stimulus salience
Salience is the physical stimulus that attracts your attention to something
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Phineas Gage had damage to his _________, which explains his _______ - CORRECT
ANSWER - frontal lobe; impulsive behavior
A drug that blocks the sodium gates of a neuron's membrane will - CORRECT
ANSWER - block the action potential
Suppose you are interested in determining if the volume of the hippocampus is associated with
the amount of stress a person was experiencing. What would be the best choice? - CORRECT
ANSWER - MRI
What 2 areas does the longitudinal fissure separate? - CORRECT ANSWER - The left and
right hemisphere
Which lobe of the cerebral cortex is most important for sense of touch? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Parietal Lobe
Language is lateralized to the _____ hemisphere regions surrounding the ________ - CORRECT
ANSWER - Left; Sylvian Fissure
Which of the following statements is the most accurate with regard to specificity coding? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Unlikely to be correct because there are too many stimuli in the
world to have a separate neuron for each
What Pathway - CORRECT ANSWER - Temporal Lobe; ventral pathway; Patient DF had
problem with; object perception; conscious
Where Pathway - CORRECT ANSWER - Parietal Lobe; dorsal pathway; Patient RV had
problem with; how; action; subconscious
,Visual Agnosia - CORRECT ANSWER - Just go on vision, can't do it; only able to figure
out on where/how pathway
true - CORRECT ANSWER - true or false: imagery and perception rely on similar
mechanisms
mental scanning - CORRECT ANSWER - creating mental images and scanning them in
mind
With which sense do we use top-down processing to build our perceptions? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Vision, taste, and hearing
All of the following are examples of physical regularities in the environment EXCEPT -
CORRECT ANSWER - Hangers are likely to be found in a changing room in a
department store (this would be a semantic regularity)
Testing principles of Bayesian inference necessarily must involve - CORRECT
ANSWER - Mathematical prodedure; Taking previous knowledge of environment and
multiplying it by the likelihood based on the given circumstances
Visual Agnosia is associated with damage to which of the following - CORRECT
ANSWER - ventral pathway; what pathway; Patient DF orientation and object recognition
problems
You are studying perception of pitch and you hypothesize that a high pitched sound will be
processed more quickly than a low pitched sound, what method should you use? - CORRECT
ANSWER - ERP
Corey looks at a flock of seagulls flying in one direction, when suddenly, five of the seagulls
start flying in another direction. He now perceives two groups of birds, because of the Gestalt
principle of - CORRECT ANSWER - Common Fate
, Attentional Control Settings - CORRECT ANSWER - Trying to find a friend in a big
crowd, looking for friend in red, everything red starts standing out at you; turn on a specific
feature that we are captured by
If you showed a group of study participants a beach scene and then briefly flashed a number of
objects for them to identify. Which would be the most likely pattern of results. - CORRECT
ANSWER - They would be likely to identify a bucket and shovel and better than a coffee
mug
With Cherry's shadowing experiments, some participants notice their name or other important (to
them) information in the unattended channel. This suggested that attention follows more of a
_____ stage model than _____ originally suggested - CORRECT ANSWER - Later,
Broadbent
Greeble novices vs Greeble experts - CORRECT ANSWER - Greeble experts more
fusiform face area than Greeble novices
Which stage of the perceptual process is knowledge/top-down processing LEAST likely to
influence? - CORRECT ANSWER - Transduction
Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following
examples? - CORRECT ANSWER - When someone accurately identifies a word in a song
on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception
The incidence of change blindness ______ when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which
part of the scene has changed - CORRECT ANSWER - Decrease
A bottom-up process is involved in fixating on an area of a scene that - CORRECT
ANSWER - Has high stimulus salience
Salience is the physical stimulus that attracts your attention to something
